Famous Quotes by Richard Rohr

Possessions are not the key to happiness; it’s relationships and meaning in life that matter.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

Faith is about accepting that there are many more questions than answers.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that people can be led out of a wilderness by someone who has never been there himself.

The truth is, we are all in need of radical grace.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change.

Surrender will always feel like dying, and yet it is the necessary path to liberation.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our wounds.

We live in a culture that tends to rush, to get ahead, to accumulate, to be busy. But none of that adds up to deep living.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

The only way to bring peace to the world is to bring peace to yourself.

We must never minimize the power of mercy.

Your true self is who you are in God's eyes. To ignore it is to live a life of pretense and illusion.

True contemplation is neither thinking nor action, but rather a radical receptivity to what is.

Compassion is not a virtue for the strong, it is the sign of true strength.

The mystery of Christ is that we are held and loved unconditionally, no matter how broken we are.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

We cannot build a just society if we are not willing to love those we consider unjust.

The goal of true contemplation is to live with an open heart and mind towards ourselves and others.

The purpose of life is not to be right, but to love well.

One of the deepest tasks of human beings is to learn how to feel what we feel and express it in a healthy way.